I've played this game dozens of times, but I can still barely get more than 50 points during solo plays, so I've been looking at strategy guides. I think I might get too many occupations... By the end, I'll usually have four occupations, and they don't give me any points. I also seem to end up with too much food. So I seem to go too hard for making a food engine. However, I'll keep your tips in mind on the next play through!

Absolutely correct on initially focusing on growth; the player who ends up taking the most actions in the game will most likely win the game. Not always, but usually. You don't have to grow first, but you assuredly don't want to dawdle. As for card play, the best rule of thumb is "play the cards; don't let the cards play you." You must evaluate the probable return of each card to determine if it's worth playing in the first place. As you say, prioritize! Nicely done, sir!

1.Upgrade to a clay hut on 3 or 4 rooms do not build all 5 in wood as there won't then be enough wood for fences and stables. 2. Always try to have enough wood to build at least one stable the first time you build a room. I very rarely go to the build room space with only 5 wood. Stables means you can now keep at least 2 animals which you can keep to breed later or you can slaughter if neccessary. Plus with just 6 fences you can keep 8 of one animal plus one in your house. Extra points too come game end and late game adding stables will be more of a pain. 3. Keep track of the cards which are op and which didn't really work. Market woman, seasonal worker, anything that gives vegetables, all of the fushing net ones that give you extra food plus spices are all game winners for me, every time. Cards like medicant I have never used and seems pointless. Forester seems great but I never win with it. So play what you know is powerful or that you know exactly how it works. Ignore what you haven't been able to work even if it seems good. 4. Try to always have prerequisites ready before going to the expand family or other space that gives 2 actions. Prepare a small improvment to play before even going to the grow family space. So often in my first few gsmes I would grow my family and then realize that I should have picked up a few wood first for example. 5. Playing the AI like on tablet whatever take animals even just 1 or 2. It is anoying but the AI will take all of the animals instantly. Same for wood. Even if isn't many say 2 or3 don't wait for it to get to say 6 or 9 because it rarely will. The less the number of players the more patient you can be. Solo or 2 player you can wait for a bigger pile before taking it.

the game goes so quick, it feel it is over before it has really started

Great content bro!

Thank you for the suggesions.

While it's absolutely true that getting the first room and first growth generally correlates with winning, it's also true that setting up a food engine and getting materials for room building are usually mutually exclusive. Strong players will punish a player who grows their family too quickly by denying that player opportunities for food. Strong players will also punish a player who focuses too much on food by not letting them grow (and get extra actions) until very late in the game. This tension, especially in the 4-player game, is what makes Agricola so appealing to strategy gamers, I think.

Very helpful! Can't wait to introduce Agricola to my weekly game night group. Hopefully this will give me the advantage! heh heh.

This is really helpful - I like Agricola a lot but I'm not very good at it. Gonna keep trying though, thanks for the advice!

Thanks for this! I'm a total newbie in the board game world, and as an introduction to worker placement games, I bought the app for Agricola on my tablet, and I can't get the required 50 points to make it past the first stage of the solo campaign! I'm learning this may not have been the gentlest intro to this genre of the game, hehe....

Another thing is to prioritize drafting lower-cost minor improvements so that the starting player minor improvement action isn't wasted when jockeying for initiative.

I love this game ... more than Caverna. Thanks for your advices. They helped me with my game

This strategy video is like - do everything, but also only this one thing, but also not only that one thing

Love this!!!

This was the most difficult game to ever learn for me and I have an entire closet wall full of games. The instructions are far too long and cumbersome so I had to go online years ago just to watch some video totorials. With that in mind it's a great game and I play the single-player variant all the time when no one else is available!

The thing to get food quickly is to bake bread by making cereals with fields.